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ANOTHER REREL SAINT.

When the ex-COnfederate Chaplains were
extolling the high Christian character of
Howell Cobb at Ocean Grove last week, was
there no one present TO remind them that this
particular Servant of the Lord " was next
to the infamous John II. Winder in guilty
responsibility for Andersonville? Howell
Cobb was the commander of the Department
of Georgia, and aided Winder in every way
to carry out his diabOlieal plans. The writer
frequently saw Howell Cobb, the noble, true
hearted, consistent Christian gentleman"
riding around the stockade at Andersonyille
during those terrible days in July and Au-
gust, 1864, and gazing with Implying eye
upon the awful misery existing there. This
meek follower of Jesus" this true lover
of the Lord" knew that CARLOAD of Irish
potatoes would save the lives of thousand
men who were rotting with the scurvy; yet
his christian impulses" never prompted
him to send them in. He knew that wagon
load Of rough planks to make shelter from
the broiling sun, would save another thou
sand lives of his feilow-beings; but "his
great Christian beartn never moved him to
supply them. He saw brats of guards from
mis- own regiments shooting men down for
reaching toward the desd-line for cup of
clean water, and he encouraged them in it.
He saw men from his command hunt down
escaping prisoners with bioOdhounds, and
he rewarded them for it, We get very weary
of this continual, sloppy adulation of the
Christian characters of Lee and Jackson.
When it comes to putting Howell Cobb on
pedestal as a saint, patience ceases to be a
virtue.
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WASHINGTON D. c. THURSDAY AUGUST H. 1887

will be engraved with the name Of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles and scroll work. The hilt will be of white
sharks skin braided in gold The guard will be of
gold, emblematic Of both cavalry and infantry. At
the extreme end of the guard, engraved in gold.
viii be the head OF Natchez the son of Cochise, a
mocastone amethyst forming the end Of the hiIt.
Gen Edward Jardine. formerly Of the 18th " V.
has been In very poor health for several months.
Last week he was removed from his residence Ia
New York to pleasant rooms overlooking the sea
at Brighton Beach. IL Is hoped that he will re-
ceive great benefit from this.
Gen. Sherman will read an interesting paper be-
fore the coming Reunion OF the Society OF the
Army OF the Tennessee. He viii attend the Ma
uonai Eneampmentas delegate from Missouri.
Gen Clinton b. Fisk is attending the Waterways
Convention at sault Ste. Marie. He claims that
the Irohibition party will poll five times as many
votes next year ever before and says that he will
not take the nomination for President himself
Cen II. p. Alger has gone to Europe, In COM
pany with Chauncey NJ. Depew and Henry b. Led
yard. in the interest Of big railroad scheme for
which they expect to get 81 10000 from the Eng
lsh capitalists Their intention il to build an en-
trely new line from the Straits Of Maekinaw to
Duluth. which will traverse Of the richest tim
Der and mineral districts in the world.
Ins.-Gen. Absalon Baird sailed for Europe last
Saturday. for the purpose Of studying the Autumn
manuvers OF the European armies.
Comrade John s. Bosworth. formerly Of the 18th
Iowa, who has been for the last l6 years in the
War Department, and made good record for
efficiency. resigned last week to go into the news
paper business at Glenwood Springs. Col. Com
rade Bosworth was good soldier. and Is pleasant
gentleman. whom commend 20 the comrades
of Colorado. He Is practical printer, and before
coming to Washington city editor Of an Iowa
paper.
Gen. Phil Sheridan viii review the Pennsylvania
National Guard at its encampment at Mt. Gretna,
from Aug. to L.
The court at San Francisco has ordered the dis
tribution OF the estate Of the late Gen. Mcdowell.
Besides the real estate there some shares in a
Chicago sugar refining company. and Of other in
eorporated companies.
Gen. Jas s. Robinson. Secretary Of State OF Ohio.
has gone to the upper lakes with Senator Sherman
for n two weeks trip.
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l-Dif9h NATIONAL IrIrrsE are Tie old s0i.
riefH outside af ihr a AR invited 40 uttnud illc
rfeai fifuui a. De- held in 81 Louis M sei,iflri.fy
There are iiiIge nunibsf living here who are mot
members. ahry ought NOT 10 b. counted out nov.
bessiuse obey were not counted out ~ Belmont.
shiloh Stone iuver. Chiclzamauga and elsewhere.
We Wani Ia SO there aud naos.i tils boys some ~
a. hntf MOT iind ~ opportunity io join the q A r.
some have lacked te mooney when tlley had Tie
opportunity and sone haye simply neglected \
liHi ~ ~ boiove in the principles u the Order
n kIeDsroa. ceuier. Kan.
Yes you arc all invited, and most heartily.
We want every man who wore the blue
honorably TO 70 10 ST. Louis, whether be i
q member Of the GAR or not, and meet
with Us DE viii reosve warm welcome
and be made thoroughly At home. So win
his wife and children, II be viii bring them.
and also all his friends who sympathized
with the Union during the war, and did
what they could 10 secure the triumph Of
our cause. We want eyers body 10 feel free
to come, who were our friends during the
dark days, and are our friends now. il i
10 be grand Union jubileea meeting Of
thanksgiving and praise for victory In war
and ior united, prosperous and happy
country, as the result OF that victory. All
who are in accord with this idea viii end
ht Louis pleasant place 10 be during the
National Encampment
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SOME little attention was excited here last
week by the presentation to the President
of communication from Charles Whitehead,
who subscribed himselfas Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions of the National
Veterans Union Association of Des Moines,
Iowa. and inclosing resolutions adopted by
that association commencing the veto of the
Dependent Pension Bill, and denouncing
the action of those who opposed the return
of the rebel flags and the visit of the Presi-
dent to st. Louis. In a letter to Gen. Rose
Grams, Whitehead asked him to present these
resolutions in the name of ut least 10000
ex-Union soldiers of Iowa" 1t now trans
pires that the National Veterans AssOcia-
ton " consists of barely 81 men who can be
considered to have served in the army, and
not more than four of these belong to the
GAR. This is about equal TO the famous
three tailors Of Tooley street, who issued the
manifesto beginning ave, the people of
England" There are more than 600 Union
ex-veterans in Des Moines alone.
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OF the Shenandoah" Tie began life "a fancy goods
merchant IN Massachusetts. but early In the war
raised a company and joined the 18th Mass IT. A.
lie soon afterward employed by Gen. Il. r.
the British Provinces to look into the system Of
blockade running then in vogue He was success
fl in the mission. for Gen. G. G.. Augur I'm his re-
port of Aug. Is IsG5 says that IL WAS through the
fundamentally of Capt. Worsley that the extern
sive system Of blockade running from Baltimore
and Washington was broken up. After returning
from this trip WOrsley went out a. a spy upon
MO=by. under orders from Gen. Augur, though not
until he returned to Boston and married Helen
Isabel Francis. who survives him. Accom- Danied
by his young wife Worsey set out Ostensibly upon
a peddiing trip through Virginia. Ills real
object suspected by Mosby and n spy
WAS placed upon his track. The spy was a hand
some young lady, who To be conducted TO
Washington by Worsley. The Union spy WIS too
smart to be caught, and instead Of using his pass
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
wAsnNeroN. D. G, AUeUsr u. -
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

IRON GRAFTOE 10 McDOWELL.-By
C,gt i. n. Moatfoyr 75a Ohio This is an
account Of fie Operations Of The Troops IN
West Firginia iR the Summer and Fan Of
1861, and Of he adrance Of lfilroys DiDis-
ION npOa SiapnOR, ending 'Oith The bloody
battle suih StoReraH Jackson, near ElcDop-
eH.
SHOPS CREEK.-Aa Interesting 1c-
count Of Clusters Part IN this Battle. By r.
C. Robinson. Isl ". Va. Car. Bridgeport, o.
TIE I'D Ph.--From Falmouth 10 Gettysburg.
BIZ Samuel Roberts, I'D Pa, Philadelphia,
Pa
BATON ROUGE-HOw breckenridge Tried
to Take II, Bat Failed By W. Il. WobLr,
Ga Mici Lampasas, Ter.
TIE CONFEDERATES IN ARIZONA
Operations IA the Far Vest b. J. C. Han,
Falipgiord, Conn
dTERELLS RAID.-A Graphic Sketch Of
Dashing Caralry Exploit BY Capt J. H.
Rife 7h IT, Ia. Cau., Hest JeCivson, o.
TIE Apply MAIL.--An Interesting account
Of The Postal Serricc During the War; By
d.. A. Norris Goshen, o.
ACROSS TIE PLAINS Narrative Of a
Vssd Bostea Trip IL 1857 BY ". Thorn
ton Parker, late Acting Assistaat Surgeon,
Us. A., Negp0y1, Il. T.
FOODS DIVISION 1T MISSION RIDGE
Its FrompiResa In Teaching the Crest By
Cen AQRaa Wiley, Colonel, 4la Ohio.
Wooster o.
TIE S1U8DERS RAID-A Successful
Expedition AgaiRsi he Last Tennessee aud
Tirginia Railroad. BY s. c. Try, Battery
ID, lsi ohio L. A., la Crosse Kan.
E1DDELL FARM.--En account ofa Byisk
.lrlaAsas Fight By A5er @. Bracket,
coioael 81 q. s. oar., Fort Darts, Tea.
on 10 REDMOND Graphic Na,yatipe
cf Capture and cgpiipity. By George B.
Crawford, 90 G, Isl w. Ta, Eells5urg, ". ia
TdEDERTEER's BRIGADE-m Gallant
CoRdnci al Gsielamouga BglS. p. ZelriRg,
O. n. 35a Ohio, Germanto,oa, o.
EhWKTNSS ZOU1VES.-7ze First Bavo-
NJ Charge By -. IT, T. Whaaey, Sergeant,
%. y, sA A. y, Ber York CaE.
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through swamps and by-road8 until she became
Disguised with the trip. and she returned 70 Mozby
convinced Of the loyalty OF WOrslcy. Mosby VISA
not. however. convinced, and at one time placed
pistol 10 Worsley'5 head. threatening 10 how his
brains ont The young lady interccded aud
Worsley' life was saved Aiterwarsl Mosby became
hrs irm friend. fighting n duel with a nephew Of
Gen. Lee because Lieut.. Lee had set a guard upon
WOrsiey aud had condemned him spy. On
two occasions Norsley furnished information BY
which the Federal forces were enabled TO surround
the house IN which MosOy was quarteFed. but the
dashiDg rebel cut his way out and escaped. On
several occasions he got Information % attended
rnids upon Washington IN time TO allow the anthor
tiles ia mass their forces and save the Capital. AZ
the time Of the assassination Of President Lincoln
WOrsley received command OF a squad Of detect
ives. and when Booth killed he retired "a
private life. For the past 10 years he has run
park restaurant in the Bradford oil fields.
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anrrLIrARY ExPENsEs..


Under this head the Mugwump Boston
Herald says:
We apt 10 think that we enjoy great ad-
vantage IN this country in not being obliged 10 sup
port great army. So we do. Our little army Is a
mere bsgatelle. compared with the armies OF Eu-
rope. We have no jealous and powerful neighbors
just the border looking for preext to go 70
war NO millions 81 discontinued people 20 be kept
IN order by te strong hand The latter Is the chief
secret Of European big armies. Foreign complica-
ti0ns good excuses for maintaining disciplined
hordes Whose real business II 10 hold the people
in check. Uneasy. iDdeed would lie Che heads
which wear Ia Europe but for the arm les
which fence them ia Bot. though we have a very
small army, we have military expenses on a liberal
scale. The London Economist has been looking
into this matter. and il says: The British Gov
eminent IN certainly not model Of economy IN
military expenditure. and we hear a great deal
about the advantages which accrue 10 The United
States because they are not bnrdcned with the
heavy cost 81 keeping Hp an army. The fact. how
ever D. HAT intending the pensions tie expendi-
ture Of the United States in connection with tie
army q distinctly 0reater laH Dat Of THIS country"
And still there are people who think our pension
roll ought 20 be made good longer. and among
them are those SO intensely Interested In the well
fare u onr country that they urge the levy Of high
taxes on the people 10 make them more prosperous
This sort Of talk has no bearing whatever
on the real question.
II is sheer nonsense 10 insist upon com
parisons Of our pension-rol with those Of
European countries, for The simple and very
adequate reason that no country in the
world ever had such an array Of fighting
men in the world as we put into the deld,
and no army ever did 50 much terrible fight
ing and endured 50 many hardships.
We fought more bloody battles and lost
more men killed in action than England has
fought and lost since the days Of William
The Conqueror-sinoes she has been Nation,
in fact Grants campaigns against Yiclzs-
burg alone involved much more suffering.
more misery, more fighting, and more men
killed than Englands whole share Of the
Crimean War. The British troops in the
Crimea suffered less than Grants men in
the swamps Of the Mississippi, and the
fehting at the Alma. Balaklava.
Inkerman and The siege Of sebastopol, was
not nearly 10 desperate and destructive Of
human life "A Shermaa's attack on chicza-
saw Bayou, the battles OF PORT Gibson, Ray
mond, Jackson, and the siege Of Viclzsburg.
Yet Grants forces were but a small portion
Of The whole Onion army, and the siege Of
Niczsburg bat an episode in The great war.
As our war cost us more killed and wound
ed than al the wars England ever fought.
the only proper comparison is 10 put an that
We have spent for pensions on account Of IL
alongside all that England has paid out for
pensions on account Of all her vans The
showing VIII be strongly in our favor. for
she has probably paid 20 times as much for
pensions, in proportion 10 the fighting done
as we have.
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There is something exceedingly suggest
i've in the remarkable prOmptness and
unanimity with which all the soldier-haiing
press open FIRE on some special target 1t
hints at some one behind them passing the
word down the line and furnishing them
with ammunition. This view is further
confirmed by the sameness of the arguments,
facts figures, and frequently the language
employed by each.
For example, last Winter, when the De
pendent Pension Bill was under considera-
ton, they broke out all at once with Trades
against it, based on some sO-called facts con-
nected with the passage of the general PEN
sion bin in 1913 Every one used the same
illustrations, every one garbled the facts
connected with past and recent pension
legislation the same way, and every one
used the same epithets in reviling all sol
diers who desired the bin, and the people in
and out Of Congress who favored il.
Next we saw them all, with one accord,
begin abuse Of the GAR and Gen. Fair
child, in order TO distract public attention
from the flag episode and the ST. Louis mat
ter. Suddenly, last week, they began at
lacking the Dependent Pension Bill, and
the means which are being employed 20 Sc
cure an Endorsement Of il 10y the comrades
and its passage by Congress.
They all, without exception, begin with
styling this a pension raid" and proceed
10 belabor the GAR. for conspiring" TO
"bulldoze Congress-" Then they raise tie
old familiar cry about bounty-jumpors,'
shirks," coiTee-coolers," and end by de-
nOuncing some mythical individuals as
pensiOn-sharks."
The simultaneousness Of this attack, and
the sameness Of the arguments, phrases
epithets used, show that this is a precon-
eerted movement by the enemies of soldiers
and Of pensions, and that an organized effort
has been and is being made to defeat pen
sion legislation by breaking down the GAR.
before the public and prejudicing the people
against every man who was in any sense a
spokesman OF representative Of the Order.
This is the real reason Of theextraordinary
malignancy with which Gen. Fairchild has
been pursued by the yelping pack Of soldier
hating papers They were deliberately set
on 20 him, like any other pack OF mongrels,
by those who controlled them, and who did
it as preliminary step in breaking down
the Dependent Pension Bin. The same is
true Of the abuse showered upon Corporal
Tanner and other prominent GAR. men,
and THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. II is part
Of the plot to cripple the Order in its efforts
10 get justice for the veterans
OF course, the plot is already a failure
The virulence Of those in il has helped ex-
pose and defeat their object They are, as a
rule, men who have sinister motives for any
course they adopt, and their sudden and
foaming hostility to everybody prominent
In the GAR. at once created suspicion.
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WORK OF THE PENSION OFFICE.

During the week ending Aug. 6, there
were received 754 original invalid cases ;
3S3 widows; war of 1912; o bounty land !;
% navy; 1 old war; 255 on account of Next
can services; 2,517 applications for in
crease; 731 reports and cases from Special
Examiners. The total number of letters
and blanks sent out was 30, 422, and the to-
tai number of letters received was 9,751.
Report Of certificates issued during week
ending Aug 6, 1887: Original, 1888; in
crease, 96s; reissue, us; restoration, 81; du-
plicate, o.; accrued, los; arrears, O; Act of
March 3, 1888, /; Order of April 3, 1884, g.;
Act of March 3, 1885, o; Order Oct. Z, 1885, o !;
Act of Aug. 4, 1886. .; Supplemental Act
Aug. 4, 1886, I; Mexican war, 156; total,
2,l29. Reissue same date, 10.
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the great city Of st. Louis, with its stately
buildings, its roaring streets, its hum of in
dustry, and its half million of active, push
ing citizens.
1t is worth while going to St Louis,
merely to stand on the great bridge in the
middle of pleasant September afternoon,
and see all this
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IT has got among the Chaplains, too. They
have been holding a Reunion, 10 which the
Confederate Chaplains were invited, down at
Ocean Grove, and which was turned into a
blue-and-gray lovefeast the other night As
usual on such occasions, the front, back, both
sides and all the trimming was gray, with
very little blue showing anywhere. The
evening was spent in eulogies Of the Christ
ian character" Of Lee, StOnewall Jackson,
ID. A. p Hill, Howell Cobb, A. II. Colquitt,
Kirby Smith, John b. Gordon, and other
rebel leaders. VIII the reverend gentlemen
please say something about the mysterious
dispensation of Providence which set such
immaculate saints at the head of wicked
conspiracy to perpetuate human slavery and
deluge peaceful land with red-handed war ?
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Tie above picture shows the exact size Of
Che elegant badge designed Cor the members
Of TIL NATIONAL TRIBUEE's Conversation
Club. ii is made Of coin silver, and makes
3 very pretty ornament We viii send ID to
any address OF receipt afSl
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The soldier-hating Boston Herald says
that the Mugwumps "loye the Good, the
True, and the Beautiful That IL the rea-
son IL goes back on the veterans doubtless
We may be Good and True, but, alas, most
Of US are no longer Beautiful.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-04
ROSSER TALKS.
Jubal Early as . Generai|SheEihan's
Terrible Work.

.JubaI Early as q Geueral-Sheridan's
Terribl. Work.
NEW YORK, July 2.-Ctcneral Thomas
l.. Rnsser. Of Virginia, Is staying al the
Victoria Hotel. having come to this city TO
see his son of to Europe to-day. The
Young man who is - years OF age, Is en-
route TO Germany to pursue bis studies.
When called upon ~ a reportsT to-dSy
General Rcsser was not inclined to talk
with regard 10 tine recent controversy he
tween himself and General Phil Sheridan
and General JubGl Early. Hus first crltl-
cisms OF Early were in an entirely friendly
spirit, but because he lRoSserl did not
think General Early a good Typographical
engineer, the latter became angry.
II saw him studying a map OF the bat
tIaield once" said General EoSser, and
because he could not find = certain road on
the man he called an aide, who had IN
formed him that he had Just rode through
il. a id liar. He never could SIZE up a
country for himself. and was helpless with
ont mans. But | don't want a controversy
with him. HE'S an old man now, decrepit
alike in body and mind"
As to General Sheridan, General RoSser
said no one could tell just how much he
was to blame for the rayages commltted ny
his command, hut that it would have been
cruel for General Sheridan TO haye bar
rowed the feelings OF those persons whose
entire possessions hsd been swept away by
his soldiers nv atriumphal trip up the val
lev be had so mercileSsly oyerIun.